In America, $11,000 a Year Is Not Poor

In America, $11,000 a Year Is Not Poor "Besides being generally outraged that our country is failing to provide for so many of our citizens, let's examine the real absurdity: The poverty line is $10,830. A year. For a family of four, the poverty line is $22,050, which is even worse. The idea that, statistically, we are comfortable calling someone making less than $20,000 a year anything other than poor is simply wrong. "